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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-and-industrial-injuries-luxembourg-order-1955/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1955/420",
  "legislation_title": "The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Luxembourg) Order, 1955",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL INSURANCE\nRECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS\nMade 17th March 1955\nComing into Operation 1st April 1955\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of March, 1955\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas at Paris on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, a Convention between the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to extend and co-ordinate social security schemes in their application to the nationals of the parties to the Brussels Treaty (which Convention, hereinafter called “the Multilateral Convention”, is set out in the First Schedule hereto) was signed on behalf of those Governments:\nAnd Whereas by Article 13 of the Multilateral Convention it was provided that the Convention should enter into force, between those signatories which had ratified it, two months after the day on which the third instrument of ratification had been deposited with the Secretary-General of the Brussels Treaty Permanent Commission and should enter into force for each of the other signatories on the first day of the month following that in which its instrument of ratification was deposited:\nAnd Whereas the Multilateral Convention was ratified by the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, France and the Netherlands, and the third instrument of ratification was deposited on the 15th day of March, 1951, and accordingly the Multilateral Convention entered into force between those Governments on the 15th day of May, 1951:\nAnd Whereas the Multilateral Convention was ratified by the Government of Luxembourg, and its instrument of ratification was deposited on the 12th day of January, 1952, and accordingly the Multilateral Convention entered into force for that Government on the 1st day of February, 1952:\nAd:And Whereas at London on the thirteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, a Convention between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Luxembourg on social security (which Convention, hereinafter called “the Bilateral Convention”, is set out in the Second Schedule hereto) was signed on behalf of those Governments:\nAnd Whereas by Article 44 of the Bilateral Convention it was provided that the Convention should enter into force on the first day of the second month following the month in which the instruments of ratification had been exchanged:\nAnd Whereas the Bilateral Convention has been ratified by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Luxembourg, and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on the 14th day of February, 1955, and accordingly the Bilateral Convention enters into force on the 1st day of April, 1955:\nAnd Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, it is provided that Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting those Acts in their application to cases affected by agreements with other governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in those sections:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and the said section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Instrument modified (1.2.1972) Bilateral and multilateral reciprocal social security agreements between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the European Communities have generally been superseded, for nationals of those States, by the provisions of Council Regulations (EEC) Nos. 1408/71 and 574/72 to the extent provided by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 subject to the exceptions prescribed by that Article and set out in Articles 7, 8 and 46(4) of that Regulation. The following Instrument, while generally superseded for the above reason, may still be of interest in its effect on persons or matters excepted from, or otherwise not covered by, that Regulation."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Instrument modified (18.2.1976) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/225), arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Instrument modified (6.4.1979) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/290), art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Instrument modified (11.4.1988) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/591), arts. 2, 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Instrument modified (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/767), art. 2, Schs. 1-3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Instrument modified (9.4.2001) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/407), art. 2, Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Order modified (6.4.2016) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/158), Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Order modified (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/159), art. 1, Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    }
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